Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport

The RAF Santa Cruz Air Force Base was used by the Indian Royal Air Force (RIAF) during World War II , and in the 1950s (after the independence of India) was transferred to the Indian civilian authorities. Initially, the airport was called Santa Cruz by the name of the area. In the 1980s, a new international terminal located in the Sahara area was commissioned at Santa Cruz Airport. Even today, domestic terminals 1-A and 1-B are called Santa Cruz terminals, and the international terminal is called Sugar.

Mumbai Airport is the largest in the Indian subcontinent . The Mumbai Delhi flight is the seventh busiest domestic flight in the world based on the number of flights per week. Along with the Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport, Mumbai Airport is India's largest international air gateway, serving 46 foreign airlines. This is the main hub of Air India , as well as the second hub of many other airlines, including Indian Airlines , Jet Lite , GoAir , Air Deccan , SpiceJet , IndiGo Airlines and Kingfisher Airlines . The maximum international traffic reaches late at night, domestic flights begin at 10:00. However, at least 45% of airport traffic falls between 10:00 and 18:30.

Mumbai Airport, together with Delhi, Chennai and Bangalore Airports, services 50% of the passenger turnover of Indian airports. Over the 11 months from April 2006 to February 2007, Mumbai Airport served 180,000 take-offs and landings and more than 20 million passengers, including 13.56 million on local flights and 6.73 million on international flights. Compared to 2005-2006, there was an increase in traffic 21.28%. ^[one]

The airport consists of two main terminals: Terminal 1 (another name - Santa Cruz) for domestic flights and Terminal 2 (another name - Sugar) for international flights. These terminals use the same power at the airport, but are physically separated, it takes 10-15 minutes for a passenger to move from one terminal to another. The Indian Civil Aviation Authority provides the shuttle with transit terminals. Terminal 1 is divided into Terminal 1-A, opened in April 1992, serving Air India Indian Airlines and Air India Regional , as well as Kingfisher Airlines. Terminal 1-B serves SpiceJet, Air Deccan, GoAir, IndiGo Airlines and other private local airlines. Terminal 2, designed by Aéroports de Paris and opened in January 1981, is today Terminal 2-A. The initial complex, consisting of aircraft stands 41-46, namely exits 3-8, was equipped with the first telescopic rails in India; it serves most of the airlines, while Terminal 2-C, opened in October 1999, only Air India, Air-India Express and those carriers that use Air India ground services. Terminal 2-B operated from September 1986 to October 1999 and operated by Air India and its associated airlines until the opening of 2-C. Terminal 2-B is being reused since 2-A is being closed for renovation.

At Mumbai Airport, there are two intersecting runways , oriented 09/27 and 14/32. Lane 14/32, 2925 m long, is located between Terminals 1 and 2, and the main lane 09/27, 3445 m long (originally 3489 m), is south of the terminal buildings. The course-glide path system (ILS) is installed on each of the lanes, lane 27 is certified according to CAT2. From January 1, 2006, both runways were used simultaneously for three hours in the morning from 05:30 to 08:30. It is possible that the experiment will be extended to night time. The use of strip 14/32 is associated with a number of problems, the cause of which was the inconvenient location of the strip relative to unsafe objects and restrictions on visual approach

Upgrade

Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL), a consortium of GVK Industries Ltd. (GVK) and Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) received an order to modernize Mumbai Airport in February 2006. MIAL should provide increased comfort for passengers and work in terminals. Staff retraining was carried out.

The design and interior of the airport were developed mainly by the Argentinean design studio Steinbranding , who had similar experience at the airports of Ezeiza in Buenos Aires and Zvartnots in Yerevan . ^[2] .

Master Plan

In October 2006, MIAL announced the master plan ^[3] for the development of the airport, which provided for the expansion and modernization of infrastructure, which would increase the airport's carrying capacity to 40 million passengers a year and 1 million tons of cargo by 2010. Separate buildings of domestic and international terminals will be combined in one large building of the existing international terminal, and the terminal of domestic airlines will be converted into a cargo terminal.

The work will be carried out in two stages:

• Preliminary Stage - conducting the necessary preliminary activities. They should be completed in 2008 and will include:
  • Reconstruction and construction in Terminal 2
  • An update to Terminal 1A to upgrade and expand facilities such as check-in desks and passenger boarding capacities
  • Organization and creation of temporary cargo capacities
  • Modernization of runway facilities, construction of high-speed exits from taxiways to increase the capacity of the runway
  • An increase in ground infrastructure, in particular the construction of multi-story parking lots

• Stage 1, which should be completed by 2010, includes:
  • Construction of a new terminal building (T2) in the catering area of ​​the current Terminal 2 for international and domestic flights
  • Freeway to Western Express Highway to Terminal 2
  • Improving traffic controls, including a new control tower and building a parallel taxiway
  • Passenger service infrastructure development
  • Construction of new cargo capacities
  • Construction of Terminal 1C (in 2009)

Infrastructure upgraded airport features:

New taxiways suggest high-speed descent from the runway, which will increase its throughput. MIAL plans to establish a centralized control system for domestic and international flights, the displays of which will be located in both terminals. It is planned to improve the air traffic control system (ATC) and the apron area. A centralized call center will be created to provide flight information.

Bharti Airtel provides free Wi-Fi at the airport ^[4] .

A new international terminal project has been developed at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport. After its commissioning, the airport capacity will be 40 million passengers per year. This terminal will be used simultaneously for local and international flights, it will operate 24 hours a day.

The result of the reconstruction project:

Completion date: 2014 Territory: 4,843,759 sq. M. ft. Building height: 45 m Number of large stores: 4

Inside the airport

• Free shuttle between domestic and international terminals
• Prepaid taxi service between domestic and international terminals

In Mumbai

• Prepaid TaxiCab
• Meter taxis
• Cool cabs
• Auto rickshaw
• Suburban railway
• BEST bus
• car rental

Airline Destinations

Terminal 1 - Domestic Flights

Terminal 1A

Terminal 1B

Terminal 1C

( Under construction. Planned opening in 2009. )

Terminal 2 - International Flights

Terminal 2A

( Reconstruction in progress )

Terminal 2B

Terminal 2C

Cargo Airlines

• Mumbai International Airport Limited (official site )
• Chatripati Shivaji International Airport at Airports Authority of India
• Nortel Network and Mumbai International Airport
• India airports agreement signed (neopr.) . BBC News (April 4, 2006). Date of treatment June 19, 2008. Archived March 21, 2012. - Information on airport expansion plans